Little Transcript Help Over Here, Please

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Mikey,

As Sarah writes, you may have to remove "bg".

Are you sure that the variable theButton contains "north" and are you  
sure that the button is on the current card when you execute the script?

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On 3 jul 2008, at 05:56, Mikey wrote:

> If I do the following in a script:
> put "north" into theButton
> global status
> put the hilite of bg button theButton into status
>
> and check status, I get the value I expect, namely the hilite of the  
> bg
> button North.
>
> However, if I
> if the hilite of bg button theButton then
>
> OR
>
> if (the hilite of bg button theButton) then
>
> I get a message execution error:  Error Description:  Chunk:  no such
> object.
>
> So if I combine both of these, status gets the value I would expect,  
> but I
> still get the error.
>
> So what's wrong with my code, please?